Quotes about Personal Growth

I felt experienced without feeling that I, personally, had been through anything.

A life coach does for the rest of your life what a personal trainer does for your health and fitness.

While your ego is always trying to figure out its place in the world, your true self knows that your place is always right here, right now.

In the first twenty years we are given our curriculum. In the next twenty we study it.

You want to have some professional boundaries. Especially at work, you need to spend more time with the less sensitive, who can be a great balance to you, and you to them. Develop outside of work the more intense sorts of relationships that offer you the emotional depth you seek.

About sixty thousand subscribe to my free e-mail newsletter at hsperson.com, where there are now hundreds of articles and blog posts I have written over the years, all archived so that you can search and find something on almost every aspect of being highly sensitive. This is all because you have discovered that you are highly sensitive. I know that for many of you it has changed your life, so we have reason to celebrate this growth over twenty-five years.

If the relationship has been a source of comfort, it also deserves your seeing that it continue to be a source of satisfying self-expansion.

Or maybe you just want to read, travel, study, or talk until you figure out the meaning of human life on this planet. It takes both types to make a world.

In the first twenty years we are given our curriculum. In the next twenty we study it." For some of us that curriculum is the equivalent of graduate study at Oxford!

Or as one friend of mine put it, 'In the first twenty years we are given our curriculum. In the next twenty we study it.

Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

We work to become, not to acquire.

The best service a book can render you is not to impart truth, but to make you think it out for yourself.

Work to become, not to acquire.

A relationship] takes time and deeds, and this involves trust, it involves making ourselves naked, to become sitting ducks for each other.

Your happiness and excellence as men depend greatly upon the use you make of your time while you are boys, for now you are building, habit by habit and thought by thought, the characters which you will have when you are men.

It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience. It takes a while to grasp that a garden isn't a testing ground for character and to stop asking, what did I do wrong? Maybe nothing.

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

So it is a major part of maturity to accept not only your own shortcomings but those of the people you love, and help them not to fail when you can.